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The text of the Twelfth Night script is very long, so we have separated the play into its original Acts and Scenes. Click on the appropriate links below to read Shakespeare’s script of Twelfth Night, or Twelfth Night translated into simple, modern English: Twelfth Night in modern English. |. Twelfth Night script – original text.
Scene 1. Before OLIVIA’s house. Characters. (18 total) Click on a name to see all of that character's speeches. Antonio, a sea captain, friend to Sebastain. Captain, friend to Viola. Curio, gentleman attending on the Duke. Fabian, servant to Olivia.
Jul 31, 2015 · Act 1, scene 1. Scene 1. Synopsis: At his court, Orsino, sick with love for the Lady Olivia, learns from his messenger that she is grieving for her dead brother and refuses to be seen for seven years. Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords, ⌜with Musicians playing.⌝. ORSINO.
Complete text. Twelfe Night, Or what you will. 1 Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. 2 Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other. 3 Lords. 4 Duke. 5 IF Mu si cke be the food of Loue, play on,! 6 Giue me exce ss e of it: that s urfetting, 7 The appetite may si cken, and s o dye.
DUKE ORSINO's palace. Orsino. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!
After surviving a shipwreck, Viola finds herself a stranger in Illyria. Deciding to dress herself as a boy to serve Duke Orsino, she soon falls in love with him--and trips into quite a love triangle when the countess Olivia, whom Orisno loves, falls in love with the disguised Viola. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare introduces a cast of uproarious ...
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you, To put on yellow stockings and to frown 2550. Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people; And, acting this in an obedient hope, Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd, Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest, And made the most notorious geck and gull 2555.
